04/24/12, 04:16 PM
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: South Central Wisconsin
Posts: 14,801
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Originally Posted by Rita
When I was growing up in NE Pennsylvania in the forties, we never saw a tick. The first one I ever saw was when we moved to Maryland. I wonder what changed. We lived in Connecticut and never had them there and now that is the Lyme disease capitol.
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The actual source isn't exactly known since it's slightly different in Europe. The spread of it went from east to west across the top of the US with the deer huge deer population. It moved into Wisconsin from the north and slowly worked its way south. In the mid-1980s, the spread of that tick was thought to have stopped at about the Wisconsin River. UW had a team of students and a professor checking deer at one of the main registration stations for several counties. While I was chatting with the owner of the market, there was quite a commotion outside among the UW crew. They had found a deer with ticks. It was mine! Immediately the professor wanted to know exactly where I had shot the deer and that was the first recorded south of the river. 15 or so years later, I became the first person to contract Lyme's from that same township. What irony!
Martin
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